An OS memory hog is a thing to fear, especially in a system where memory is fixed, like the PlayStation 3 (PS3). Sony initially gobbled up 120MB of the available memory , spread across both the XDR and DDR ram, which was later reduced to 96MB. But that still looked pretty chunky in comparison to the Xbox’s OS svelte 32MB. Oink, oink
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The telecommunications agency of Iran announced on Wednesday that they have “permanently suspended” the use of Gmail. Iranians can expect a national email service (ironically) to be released soon regarding the ban. The announcement comes, along with other reported incidents of authorities disrupting or confiscating various forms of telecommunications, including satellite dishes and cell phones. It is thought that these events might be sparked by this week’s anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, during which it is speculated the streets will fill with anti-government protestors.
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Think about all the time you spend in front on your PC. Are you being efficient? Here’s a better question: Are you being as efficient as you can be? The simple answer is ‘No.’ Every time you lift your fingers off your keyboard to navigate Windows, you’re wasting time.
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The name would imply much more powerful and potentially devious capabilities, as seen in most games these days. Instead, the “God Mode” folder for Windows 7 supplies a tidy place to find nearly everything you can do within the Windows Control Panel. To access the special capabilities of the God Mode folder, create a new folder anywhere on your Windows 7 computer and name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Once renamed, the icon will change to a control panel looking icon, and when opened you will be presented with a plethora of different tweaking options. On my Windows 7 Professional machine, I was shown 274 options. It appears to hold the main keywords for each option to use the search function within the control panel. Word has it that this hack also works on Vista 32-bit, but crashes on 64-bit versions
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In a blog post on Tuesday, the Google team announced the launch of Google Groups to Google Apps Premier Education Edition users. “Google Groups is one of our most widely used applications, enabling everyone from the local hiking club to the family next door to create mailing lists and discussion forums,” Google said on its blog. “Now employees within a company can create groups for their departments, their teams, or their projects. Employees can use these groups as mailing lists, but they can also share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, calendars, videos and sites with groups, instead of many individual recipients.” The search giant went on to say that users can choose to receive communications right in their email inbox, or in the Groups forum view, and will be able to access all the group archive info without any help from an IT admin
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Klipsch, our favourite AV company with a name that’s begging to be said by Sean Connery, has unveiled the latest in its speaker range to keep the multimedia computer nut in your life happy – the ProMedia 2.0 speakers. The system connects up to your myriad devices – Apple iPods, other MP3 players, televisions, CD and DVD players – and you can also plug them into your 3.5mm port, so they’re all set for multimedia presentations and the like. Got the power Each speaker houses a magnetically-shielded satellite, 15w power amplifier, dual 2.5in fibre-composite cone drivers and a one-inch metallised polymer tweeter. And on the control speaker, there’s a bass level and volume control, and an auxiliary input jack
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There are over 15 free Windows 7 tweaking utilities available that allows you tweak Windows 7 in number of ways. Windows 7 In A Box is not another free tweaking tool for Windows 7. Windows 7 In A Box is portable utility that allows you access all Windows 7 tools and programs from one place. If you have installed Windows 7 , then you can use this utility as the main Control Panel. This free utility enables you access everything in Windows 7 from Game Controller to Forgotten Password Wizard instantly.
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